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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Does time dilatation explain quantum effects?
« on: 12/09/2013 14:21:31 »
I was reading a book the other day (Why E = MC squared) and there was some talk about time dilation, namely that if you could build a spaceship that could travel at 99.99999999% the speed of light you could travel to the Andromeda galaxy in 50 years, while 3000000 years or so would pass on earth. And this made me wonder, if as you made the trip you could watch earth as you speed away from it, would everything on Earth appear to be moving in super fast forward? After all if your time is running 60,000 slower than earth's time wouldn't everything on Earth appear to be moving 60,000 times faster to you?
If that is the case, then consider the following, while you are making your trip to Andromeda scientist run an experiment on Earth that makes a car travel from 1 location to another at 10% the speed of light. If you on your spaceship observed this car, would it appear to you to be travelling at 6000 times the speed of light due to your own local time dilation?
If this is the case (that to us it appears to be travelling much faster than the speed of light) then could the same phenomenon explain things such as instant information exchange between pairs of quantum entangled particles? If the information that one particle passes to the other is travelling in a slower frame of reference than ourselves, but close the the speed of light, then wouldn't our time dilation make it appear to travel faster than the speed of light to us?
Or am I completely misunderstanding time dilation?
If that is the case, then consider the following, while you are making your trip to Andromeda scientist run an experiment on Earth that makes a car travel from 1 location to another at 10% the speed of light. If you on your spaceship observed this car, would it appear to you to be travelling at 6000 times the speed of light due to your own local time dilation?
If this is the case (that to us it appears to be travelling much faster than the speed of light) then could the same phenomenon explain things such as instant information exchange between pairs of quantum entangled particles? If the information that one particle passes to the other is travelling in a slower frame of reference than ourselves, but close the the speed of light, then wouldn't our time dilation make it appear to travel faster than the speed of light to us?
Or am I completely misunderstanding time dilation?